Best Shot of the Week

[Fairway_CY]

Nothing spectacular... but on the 10th hole yesterday (my 14th during the shotgun start) I hit a hard cut 6 iron from 170 that held against a strong right-to-left wind and landed right at my target, 20 feet left of the pin.

What made this shot so memorable was that there was no way I could ride the wind comfortably.  There's a pond fronting that green along the right side.  Unfortunately, there's OB just to the left of the green... so I pretty much HAD to hit the perfect shot to get it where I was aimed... and to watch it hold up against the wind like that and to see the result when I got up to the green (the pin was hidden by mounds fronting the left side of the green).

It was made better by making par (just missed the birdie putt off the left edge).

CY

[Gerald]

After a week in which I only putted on the practice green and did some chipping (uhhhh about 2000 balls) bc. of a bad ankle I went to the driving range yesterday to work of my S&T; backswing. The ankle held up quite good, so I decided to play some holes as the 4th hole ends at the parking lot, so I could step out if the ankle would give to many problems, but it went well and I was only at +1 after 4 holes and decided to walk the first nine.

I bought a new Wilson Staff Fybrid 19.5* two weeks ago and wanted to try that in the course for the first time, I actually had some problems with it at the range, it is a bit of a strange hybrid, more like a 5W head with a hybrid length shaft ...... but now I've worked with it ....... I can hit it about 185-190 with a stock high fade or swing at it with a more Fairway wood swing to 215-220 with a stronger grip straight to baby draw. It went very well at the course ..... used 4 times, 4 great shots.

But cherry on the cake was at the narrow 9th hole (410 yds), with a strong headwind I hit a near perfect teeshot, just left of center fairway, at 140 yds from the pin ...... so a drive of about 270 into a stong headwind..... no complaints from my side. Normally 140 is a 3/4 swing 8i (I always use about 3/4 iron swings), but the green is at a slightly lower level, from my position so I would normally have played a 9i from there, but the headwind was so strong I decided for two clubs extra, hit it with a full turn, straigthened left leg, weight forward, etc. perfect shot straight at the flag, landed about 3 ft. before the hole, hopped and stopped less than 1 ft. behind the hole ...... for a tap in birdie and a +2 round of 38.

[TourSpoon]

[IMG]http://tapatalk.com/mu/473994ab-877d-2c57.jpg[/IMG] Hit an 8 iron 151 into an elevated green 5 feet past the hole and spun it back to a few inches for a tap in birdie. It was a great swing with a baby draw, the kind of shot that you know will be good as soon as it leaves the clubface.

[Chrepper]

Stuck a 4 iron like a dart about 3 feet from the pin

[SouthernILGolfer]

I had a couple of them over the weekend on par 5's, both resulting in birdies.   Played at a new course over in evansville IN, thunderbolt pass on sat.   Really short, easy course, only 5200 yards from longest tees, par 69.  Shot my score ever, 78(+9).  After making birdie on par 3 17th hole 2nd shot on short par 5 18 from right at 200 yards, downhill,  hit a 4 hybrid to the back of the green and 2 putted for birdie, first ever consecutive birdies in any round.   On monday playing at Mcleansboro, IL on the short par 5 6th hole.   Had 220 left for my 2nd shot, hit 3 wood, actually mishit it but got real lucky.   Hit the bridge over the little creek about 50 yards short of the green, ball kicked forward and landed in the rough just short and about 20 yards left of the green.  Hit my chip shot to 2 feet and had a tap in birdie, shot 44 for 9.   Sunday was a bad day shooting 98 at red hawk in pinckneyville, IL very windy and a tough course as well.   But as Meatloaf sang, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

[glock35ipsc]

Yesterday, at the finishing hole at Pelican Falls CG.  It's an island green, 126 yards to the pin.  Hit a pitching wedge into the wind and landed it about 6' from the pin.  The birdie putt lipped out, but still made par.  This was great considering the last time I played it the lake swallowed several balls before I finally landed one over the water.... albeit on the other side of the cart path near the drop area!  But since everyone else was putting from near the edge of the green, I was very happy with the shot.

[B-Con]

I wouldn't say that this was a "good" shot, but it was definitely the best outcome for the quality of the shot... :-P Yesterday I was lining up a 40 - 50 yard pitch where the ball was below my feet slightly buried in some rough. The pin was tucked behind a bunker. I hit a terrible shot (flipped at it) and skulled the ball. It went flat and to the right at about a 30* angle. It went straight into the bunker, caught the lip jumped out onto the green left of the pin, and the spin on the ball pulled it back to the right. The ball rolled right up to 5 feet from the pin. I was flabbergasted at my good luck. For the record, good and bad luck in golf aren't anywhere close to equal on average. But it's nice to see the good luck outweigh the bad luck on occasion. :-P

[ND Fan]

Played in a two best ball yesterday and with all the rain we had it was cheater golf, roll em every where.  Any way I hit a couple beauts.  One was a 285 driver off the deck to 12 feet.  Missed the eagle but it would have been my third of the day.  Needless to say i hit a couple good shots that day.

[saevel25]

Pissed off at recording two 8's in a row, i have to admit, probably 5 of those strokes were my stupid fault, and letting my emotions get away.

But after being given my 8th putt, i tapped my ball off the green, after picking up my wedge, i hit the ball right handed only, it goes flying, hits my golf cart on the fly, then bounces directly onto the next tee box just lying there waiting for me to to tee off. Needless to say, my one playing partner found that hilarious and probably would bet the house i couldn't do it again. After that, i went 1 over for the next 7 holes. Fun times..

[bunkerputt]

Hard to say.  Probably a 46-yarder to 6 inches for birdie.  Had a 20 yard chip to 3 inches for par.  Also went Driver/Wedge on a 500 yard par-5 with no cart-path assist .  Stuck several approach shots to 4 feet.  Didn't drain any long putts.  The better we get, the less shots stand out and the harder this thread gets to comment on....  Irony.

[bunkerputt]

I'll add one for the old man playing behind me.  I was at my ball, around 290 from the blues or about 250 from the whites and this old guy in the group behind us hits.  I heard it bounce on the cart path, then it bounced again a couple of seconds later, then another bounce...  We were parked on the cart path and I thought, "Crap.  I'm going to get a ball on my head."  The ball bounces off the top of our cart and rolls into the middle of the fairway about 10 yards past my ball.  He didn't yell fore, but that lucky dog was very apologetic nonetheless...  That was probably his best drive of the day.

[soloredd]

Had a "Phil" moment today. 340 yard par 4, hooked my 3 wood into some trees - complete crap hit, I still had 175 to middle of green. Pin was at back at 182. My options were to either hit a hybrid punch and then wedge or hook a mid iron around a tree and hope for the best. There was a bunker protecting the right of the green so if it didn't hook enough I was toast. My lie sucked; hard pan with pine needles spread about so I took a 5 iron and set up for the hook - aimed clubface at the middle of green and closed my stance to aim just about to that bunker. Put a solid swing on it (didn't chunk it, which happens most often from hard pan for me). That sucker hooked so beautifully and I had played it low enough to where there was forward spin when the ball hit. Ball landed just left of the bunker right off the green and rolled to 8 feet from cup. Missed the birdie and took par.

I must confess...THAT was a golf shot!

[hjimzaf]

I had 2 last week.

Monday- 534 yard par 5. I wasn't hitting my driver well this round so I hit 3 wood, hybrid, hybrid to about 10 feet and 2 putt for par.

Friday- 389 yard par 4. I stuck a 5 iron from about 160 out to within 5 feet and made the birdie.

Why can't we play every shot like our good ones?

[xxsoultonesxx]

So yesterday I'm out on a course that I'd only played twice prior to this round. I'd been hitting my 3 wood off the tee for most of the day, and I was playing about a 15yd draw pretty consistently.

This tee box, however I played a leaky little fade after setting up for the draw, so I was deep in the right, on the other side of a line of trees and between a chain link fence.

I had a window, though straight through the trees on one side, fence on the other, with overhanging branches almost all the way to the green.

It looked like a tunnel with a flag at the end of it and I still had about 160 yards to the pin.

I pulled out my 19* hybrid, choked down on it and hit a 3/4 shot on a rail maybe 6 feet off the ground and it landed a few yards in front of the green and rolled on pin high, about 12 feet away.

Two putt par and a shit eating grin.

EDIT:

Also got on the green pin high on a par 5 in two, which is rare for me. (3 wood, 3 hybrid, 3 putt lol)

[sonicblue]

Medium par 4, driver could get me down to 100 yards, if I could control it, but I can't lately, so 3W it is.  Just hang it out right, drifts.....drifts...  I've done that before, normally I'll be in some trees with a potential line to punch out and reach the green from about 150 or so.  Must have hit a tree, it's just in the rough, kinda hard-pan lie, but all the way back right next to the 200 yard post.  A little downhill, but dead straight, laid out right in front of me, with room to run it up.  I put a nice swing on a 5I, definitely didn't get a lot of ball because of the lie, or at least the contact felt a little clunky, but I must have gotten enough of it, came out low and dead on line.  Rolled up into the middle of the green to a back pin - made the ~15 footer for birdie!

[bfn18]

Today on a 489 yd par 5, I tee up in hit one of my furest drives I ever hit. My buddies sky caddi said I was 140 out after my drive. Then hit my U wedge about 15 feet from the pin for eagle. I missed the eagle putt but made the birdie putt.

[inthehole]

Berkshire Valley, NJ ... par 3 w/ elevated tee box  - hit a 6 iron 5 ft from the hole & didn't choke on the putt for a change.    First birdie of the season ... woot !

Knoll East - toed a 9 iron & was heading low and out of bounds - hit the trunk of the only tree in sight & bounced in the middle of the fairway.       Same round, pull hooked a 3 wood deep  into the woods & hit something hard and bounced way back onto the fairway.      Never had such luck with OB shots ... sometimes it's better to be lucky than good

[k14]

This one is pretty easy to say. Holed out from 160m with my 6i on a par 5 today. Pity I was by myself and it was only for birdie!!